"Then is there no way to slip into the Lower Realm without being discovered?" Luo Qian asked. "The Eye of Heavenly Knowledge watches over the entire Saint Realm. No one can enter the Lower Realm unnoticed," Yifen declared with absolute certainty.
Luo Qian did not believe her for a second. He had turned the Immortal Apprehension Office's surveillance Magic Treasure into an umbrella that sheltered his own trips to the Lower Realm. Besides, he wandered between the Immortal Realm and the Saint Realm whenever he pleased. If that Eye of Heavenly Knowledge really worked so well, how could his body still be bare? Slave brands would have plastered him from head to toe like temporary tattoos long ago.
If he could evade the Eye of Heavenly Knowledge, there was no telling who else could.
While Luo Qian had been away, the affordable alchemy materials shop had done fairly well, saving up nearly ten thousand Superior Saint Stones. Yifen had proved trustworthy; every entry in the accounts was clear. Luo Qian took the Saint Stones to Wei Shandong and, after handing over a batch of furniture, said plainly, "Old Wei, this won't do. I trust my eye for business, and that furniture has a market. But all you've done is find somewhere to store it. How can that work? Look, my cash flow has recovered. Why don't we become partners?"
Wei Shandong gave a rueful smile. "It isn't that I lack vision. You just don't know how set in their ways people in the Saint Realm are. Getting them to accept something new is hard! Every last one of them has lived for thousands, even tens of thousands of years. Spend that long buried in the ground and you'd turn into a fossil. Stubborn old fossils, all of them." Luo Qian